Paint-brush holder



(No Model.)

' J. B. COWLEY & S. S. MORSE. V

. PAINT BRUSH HOLDER.

No. 288.692. 4 P

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH B. COWLEY AND SAMUEL S. MORSE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAINT-BRUSH HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,692, dated November20, 1883.

Application filed June 21, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSIAH BLAKE Cow- LEY and SAMUEL SEABERT Monsn, ofBoston, in the county of Suffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paint-Brush Holders; andwe do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which 1Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section, of a holderembodying our invention, the nature of which is defined in the claimhereinafter stated. Fig. 3 is a top view of part of the flexi'le orelastic band and its brush-clips.

The holder is to sustain immersed in water a number of paint-brusheswhose bristles may have on them liquid paints of different colors, thesame being not only to prevent the paints from becoming dried on thebrushes, but to preserve each brush from receiving the paint or color ofanother brush. When painters brushes are placed in water in a commonpail or vessel with a flat bottom, the paint is apt to run from them,and settle on the said bottom in such manner that a brush containing onecolor is very. liable to become soiled by paint of another color gettingon it. In our improved brush-holder there is a metallic band bent aroundin the form of a hoop, and having fixed to it a series of elastic jawsor spring-clips. The band is secured to the inner side or surface of thepail, at a suitable distance above its bottom, and such bottom, underthe series of clips, is inclined downward to a shallow cup or chamberextending down from such bottom. The brushes held by the clips comedirectly over the inclined bottom, so that any paint that may fall fromany one of such brushes will drop on the inclined bottom and run downsuch into the cup or receiver, thereby causing the bottom generally tobe free from paint.

In the drawings, A denotes the holder, which 4 5 is a pail having abail, a. The said holder flares as it descends. The inclined bottom ofit is shown at a, and the shallow cup or receptacle at b. The series ofspring-clips B B, 860., is shown as projecting from the fiexile or thinmetallic band 0, and as arranged at equal distances apart, a brush beingrepresented at Das placed in one of such clips, or between its jaws.Each clip is of thin metalas sheet-steel, for instance bent and formedin manner as shown, and at its middle it is riveted to thesupporting-band G.

We do not claim a paint-brush holder constructed as represented in theUnited States Patent No. 126,219, in which the tub has a series ofspring-clips hinged to its top. In our tub the clips are permanentlyfixed to a hoop or flexile band arranged on and firmly secured to theinner surface of the tub and below the upper edge of such tub, the clipsex tending over an inclined conical bottom leading to a cup orreservoir, as described. Therefore We claim- The improved paint-brushholder, substan- 7 0 tially as represented, consisting of the pailhavingthe conical inclined bottom a, and the cup b, arranged as setforth, and the series of spring-clips B and their supporting-banddisposed within the pail, the band being fixed to the inner surface ofthe pail, asset forth.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, i E. B. PRATT.

